Living the Teachings
Book of the Week
A doorway from page to practice.
A Monday morning reading for people who want experience, clarity, and real change.
Issue #3
The New Rules of Wellness Vol 1
Various Contributors — House of Wellness Publishing
Twenty-three health professionals. One shared conviction: that true wellness cannot be separated from the heart that drives it. This international bestseller gathers voices from across Australia and beyond — practitioners who stepped away from the status quo and built their work on something harder to measure and impossible to fake.
A passage to sit with
“The new rules are not written in textbooks. They are written in the moment you decide to trust what you know.”
— The New Rules of Wellness
What this means in real life
We have been conditioned to outsource authority — to credentials, to protocols, to systems built long before we arrived. This book asks a different question: what do you already know that you have been waiting for permission to act on?
In Kundalini yoga, we call this the Teacher within. Yogi Bhajan was clear that the outer teacher exists only to awaken the inner one. The practitioners in this anthology found their own version of that truth, in their own disciplines.
Reading their stories, you may find something loosening in you too — a quiet confidence that what you carry is real, and that it is enough to build from.
Practice (5 minutes)
Heart Centering — Opening to Inner Authority
Part 1 — Breath of Fire at the Heart Centre (2 minutes)
- Sit in easy pose or on a chair with both feet flat on the floor.
- Place both palms flat on the centre of your chest, one hand over the other.
- Close your eyes and begin Breath of Fire — rapid, rhythmic breathing through the nose, with equal emphasis on the inhale and the exhale.
- With each breath cycle, feel the warmth building beneath your hands. You are not pushing anything. You are simply arriving.
- Continue for 2 minutes.
Part 2 — Sat Nam at the Navel (3 minutes)
A meditation to anchor your own knowing.
- Lower your hands to your lap, palms face up.
- Breathe long and slow. On each inhale, silently vibrate Sat. On each exhale, silently vibrate Nam.
- Let Sat be the truth you are acknowledging. Let Nam be the name — your name, your nature.
- Continue for 3 minutes. To close, inhale deeply, press the palms briefly to the heart, exhale, and rest.
Affirmation
“I trust what I know. I lead from the heart.”
Reflection question
Where am I still waiting for permission — and what would shift if I recognised that the authority I am waiting for already lives in me?